Principle: focus on the intercommunication, practice, pertinence and interests in the teaching course.

Method: the courses are combined with field visit, investigation, and sightseeing.

★Chinese Language Students (Long Term)

Application Qualification: The applicant should have the academic credentials analogous to those of Chinese senior middle school, and 18-60 years old. There is no restriction on the applicant's Chinese language skill .

About Teaching:

Object: foreigners, overseas Chinese who are not Chinese-native speakers and Chinese people from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who want to improve their mandarin level.

Goal: to improve the Chinese language level and communicating ability in Chinese; to learn more about Chinese history, culture and China today.

Time: to study more than one term and less than 3 school years; enrollment in March and September each year; 18 weeks each term; 20 hours’ school learning each week; 4 hours each day (From Monday to Friday).

Principle: focus on the practice in the teaching course with diversified and flexible teaching methods.

Method: 2-10 students each class; organizing sightseeing to the historic spots and interest places; organizing various colorful cultural and sports activities attended by both foreigners and Chinese students concerning language learning; according to students’ wishes, overseas students can live with Chinese families.

Notice: After a period of learning, students can take the exam of HSK. Those who pass the exam can be recommended to read for a degree in the school in favor.

★Degree Students

Application Qualification: 18-50 years old. For Undergraduates, Those who have obtained Grade C of primary Certificate of Chinese Language Skills (HSK) can directly apply for undergraduate study and the applicant should have the academic credentials analogous to those of Chinese senior middle school. For Postgraduates, the applicant should obtain Grade F of primary Certificate of Chinese Language Skills (HSK) and should have bachelor’s degree; and the applicant should be recommended by 2 people with the title of associate professor at least. The applicant can first study Chinese in the school, after passing the HSK, the applicant can become the degree students.

About Teaching:

Goal: to cultivate well-developed persons with comprehensive qualification and ability, who are needed in the modern world.

Time: enrollment in September each year. Length of schooling: 4 years for undergraduates; 2-3 years for postgraduates.

Subjects and Majors: The university is a provincial whole with the seven disciplines of engineering, sciences, arts, economics, management, law and medicine. At present, the university has 18 colleges, 63 specialties for undergraduates and 93 disciplines with the right to award MA.
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Method：The overseas students have class with the Chinese students, and the diploma can be awarded after finishing the schemed course, gaining the needed credit hours and passing the thesis oral defense.

The degree can be awarded after the permission of the school Degree Committee in accordance with The Degree Statute of The People’s Republic of China.